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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "nursery school children, it is unconstitutional. However, because we understand that the bursaries that they are giving are helpful, we choose to keep quiet. From the way we are being pushed as the National Assembly, we need to take action. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to agree with Hon. Ochieng,’ because this is what I wanted to talk about. I have said it elsewhere in different meetings and I want to repeat it here. That, there are those of us who want to be chairpersons of committees, but we do not want the work that comes with it. Why does the Senate go ahead of us? They may not have anything to do, but we can equally ask the same question of our own committees. Where are we? I get perturbed for instance, like when I saw the Senate dealing with something that involves classrooms the other day. They were asking about the preparedness of classrooms, which is okay. The Cabinet Secretary can respond, but who can allocate money in the budget? It is not the Senate, but the Budget and Appropriations Committee in the National Assembly. What happens then is that it becomes a mere public relations exercise at the Senate. However, we can make a decision here by saying that in the next budget, a certain amount should be allocated. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to encourage this Parliament that it is unfortunate that the National Assembly and the Senate have this negative relation. I want to encourage some form of diplomacy as has been suggested by Hon. TJ Kajwang’. We need to improve our working relations because we will be more effective when we work and focus on our various mandates to the betterment of the country. One of the ways that we need to do that, since there is already a legislative framework in terms of the relations between the two Houses, is to have some subsidiary legislations or some rules and regulations in relation to how we work. I sometimes empathise with cabinet secretaries. The cabinet secretary is summoned in the Senate and again the National Assembly, that has that mandate, summons the same Cabinet Secretary. What time do you think the Cabinet Secretaries have to do their work? I recently invited my good brother, Hon. Mbadi, to my book launch. I wanted to interview him for a documentary. My people went there and sat from morning until midnight because he was still at work. He neither managed to do the documentary nor come to the launch. I understood since he is extremely busy and his calendar keeps changing. We now want to add our own confusion on top of that. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is unfortunate that because of that negative relation, you will find that you may pass an excellent Bill here like I did last time. I passed the Assisted Reproduction Technology Bill- even though I know you have issues with it. However, after we overwhelmingly passed it here, it went to the Senate and they sat on it. When I asked the Senate, I was told it is because of the poor working relation between the Senate and the National Assembly. The women who need to give birth will not wait."
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